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All Words Glossary Glossary of Rhetoric Terms beginning with letter H Browse the Rhetoric Glossary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z  hendiadys noun  (linguistics) a figure of speech used for emphasis, where two words joined by and are used to express a single complex idea. Classical example: nice and warm (instead of nicely warm)       hypallage noun  A literary device that is the reversal of the syntactic relation of two words, e.g. "her beauty's face" or I can't knock the smirk off his stupid face (because the thing that is referred to being stupid is "him", and not "his face").       hyperbole noun  (uncountable) extreme exaggeration or overstatement; especially as a literary or rhetorical device. (uncountable) deliberate exaggeration (countable) an instance or example of this technique (countable) (obsolete) a hyperbola       Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z  Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish     Show 51015202550100250500 results per page.

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